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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

Amanda Vaill

In Paris and on the Riviera in the 1920s, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the centre of a charmed circle. Their friends and acquaintances included many of the major artistic figures of the century, from Fitzgerald and Hemingway to Dorothy Parker and Picasso. Vaill explores how the most talented members of a generation triumphed and suffered.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: Artists -> Arts & CriticismAward Category: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography -> BiographyGroup BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryFamily, Childhood & Adoption

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor1998FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Gerald Murphy90%
    • Sara Murphy90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Paris55%
    • the Riviera55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.